I've been bad. Last Thursday I had a dinner appointment with potential employers. I figured I better eat "normal" and drink wine as well, so as not to look abnormal. I had half a bottle of red wine, had some white bread, and even had some small desert. The next day it got worse. I was invited to a bar by an old friend and drank a bunch of beer. The next day I was hung over and ate garbage (things like pizza). I got back to the Zone yesterday. So, I lost 3 days of dieting.
Today I weighed in at 261.8. I will never know how much of that was due to my binging and how much is just because I came out of the Atkins and out of ketosis. I wonder if people normally gain water weight or any weight simply by going off the Atkins.
I had oatmeal and a soy protein drink for breakfast. Homemade turkey chili for lunch. Peanuts for snacks. Water only today for beverages. For dinner, I had collard greens cooked in olive oil as well as taco meat made from ground turkey. For some reason I was a little hungry about an hour after dinner.
I am really disappointed in myself. Furthermore my feet are getting better but they still hurt. I am afraid to exercise and make them worse.
Well, I still need to talk about eicosanoids. That will be later in the week. Also, I haven't touched on how my therapy is going, and how I have been doing with my food/eating assignments from my therapist.
Transforming biochemistry knowledge into weight loss:
This page was begun as an experiment. An experiment I was conducting on myself. An experiment to test which conditions would allow me to loose weight. Now that I have been at it for a while I realize this page serves as more. It serves as a means for me to research. It is a way for me to pick health topics of interest, research them from a biochemistry stand point, and then share them with the world. Sharing them with you gives me an official feeling and keeps me motivated. However, as described below, I am still experimenting on myself.
How did this happen? I don't know exactly although I am almost sure it boils down to diet and exercise. I hope to find the answers as I explore my journey through weight loss on this blog. I was not always fat. Therefore, I know that I can be unfat again.
I am a biochemist. I should have known better. Of all people, I should have known how to avoid this predicament I am in now. I now wish to harness my scientific knowledge to experiment on myself as well as explore the chemical basis for weight loss methods.
Methods:
I will try new diets. I will experiment on myself. The diets will be chosen from among the most popular in our society. I will chronicle the results and my general experience in my blog here. I will also explore the biochemical basis for these diets as well as evaluate their effectiveness and truthfulness. I will also exercise as regularly as possible, 3-5 times per week, to avoid biasing the results. I will try to keep everything constant in my life except the diet. My method is not perfect. I don't necessarily want to lose raw pounds, but rather gain an understanding of what methods work best for me to permanently regain my health.
Hypothesis:
1. No diet will be clearly better than the others. Conversely, each diet will offer some truth, some piece of knowledge or methodology that I can take away with me to help myself. I think that in the end, I will be able to formulate my own diet based on a synthesis of all the things I have learned from all of these diets.
2. I have been on diets before, lost weight, and then regained it. I wasn't born fat. Given that, I think that my main problem will be shown to be psychological. I think that I may have compulsive eating problems- compulsive eating problems associated with very unhealthy foods.
3. I will lose quite a bit of weight. My blog will help keep my motivation levels high.
4. There will be a lack of clear scientific basis to many of the diets.
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